Thinking With My Hands

 

With Bow and Arrow With a Stern Face And with Low Gap Whiskey  

The third phase of the outdoor dry stone gallery is completed. It is an unusual walled enclosure with a narrow hall, window, niches, and two...

Richard Rhodes has written the definitive book on stonework. His firsthand knowledge of the many ways stone has been used in architecture th...

What is the proper definition of a sculpture ? Or rather, if something isn’t made by a human being, can it (say a natural rock) still be de...

Dry stone walls are perhaps the best frame of reference for understanding this enchanted creation we live in.They have  a selfless propensit...

    It’s easy to go fast It's harder to go slow  It’s easy being strong  But it's weakness makes us grow  It’s child’s play to b...

  Post-historic man - in a protective bubble, separated from all the natural elements, wearing hearing protection, deaf to the world, while ...

Over twenty years ago I was asked to repair a cheekend section of original dry stone wall gate entrance along Balsam Lake Road near Kirkfiel...

  Imagine you are one of the stones in the wall. Imagine too, all that work that went into the wall, to get you to that resting place. You a...

It looks pretty impressive, yes.  And ,we had a challenge to build it in the time we'd given ourselves. In fact we never saw it with the...

That sweet line, drawn across the top of the wall, sweepingly level, taking your eyes for a walk along the zig-zaggingly, unsagging line of ...

Real civilization cannot exist in the absence of a certain play-element, for civilization presupposes limitation and mastery of the self, th...

                       Willow's mom tells more of the story of Maeve the orphan calf. "She was born about two weeks before Christma...

 

 

Hazel wasn’t sure she wanted to be a mother, so when little Murphy showed up, she just left him in the field and walked away. Happily Maddy...

The troublesome cow. She never seemed at home on the farm.  She’d jump through fences and often looked like she might chase you if you tried...

Our little granddaughter Willow loves having stories read to her. She lives on a farm with her mom and dad, three dogs, a lot of chickens, a...

The highways create barriers to pedestrians and bicyclists  Dangerous rushing rivers of mind numbing, body crushing, self confining mobilize...